My first thought and question was...Who the heck is this author Jason Schreier and why should I care about what he had to say in a book? 🤨¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Don't ever support anything Jason does. He's a terrible person and a grifter.
Kotick is the worst thing to happen to gaming since loading screens.
Yea I'll be buying a Jason Schreier book
"Rise, fall, and future of..."Let me guess: there is no future?
Nice to see Bobby ChuckDyck
Eff off with this crap, and take Schreier with you. like all of his other work this'll be a boring and predictable outrage bait that his buddies in the industry will treat like the second bible.
Though many of the things he says resonate, I won't be buying the book. It doesn't say anything we don't already know about the increasing commercialisation (like WoW token and store sales, and the gutting of Customer Support, for example), increasing shareholder value whilst neglecting customer value.Long term players like myself are increasingly disenchanted with the game. We'll keep on playing (sunk cost fallacy!) until it gets so bad there's no longer any fun to be had. It used to be a chance a GM would appear in game to validate a bug, and help out (last time that happened was in WotLK). Now you get a stock response, generated by A"I" that totally fails to address or acknowledge a new bug, and it takes 2-3 attempts to contact a real human being, let alone a proper GM who actually has some knowledge of the game and what you are talking about.It's also not to say they haven't listed on some customer concerns. The game has become a lot more casual-player friendly, which is brilliant. At the same time, they've also stood their ground on some issues for too long before caving in (like the RNG aspect of legendary drops in Legion, which meant those who were unlucky not to get their BiS for months, gimping their raid contribution, and sometimes causing people to be dropped from teams. They repeated this with the Corruption items in BfA.). Other feedback gets ignored or a band-aid (such as implementing Patron Orders for the Craft Order system, which was badly explained and could do with a link to the AH to make it less cack-handed and complex that players don't use it unless they have to). Too often good ideas, bad design, or rushed implementation, with a lack of involvement in customers early on in the design process.It's not that there were more bugs, and those lucky to not experience them are free to enjoy one of the most interesting releases of recent years (the stories embedded in the campaign quests, side-quests and cut scenes are entertaining). However some have shown a rushed release. The Guild Bank issue revealed a reluctance to spend the time and money to address a data corruption issue (my main's Guild's bank had 7 tabs' contents disappear, and got back one Dragon Flight mana potion...). There is no way they haven't got back-ups, just the time and willingness to spend money to write, test and execute the Diff scripts and restore the data. If Guild Bank contents can disappear, is any of our data safe? Can we trust the company?Ultimately, the game will disappear, and they will turn off the servers. I'll be sad (if I'm still around by then), but, as one wise person once said, "the only constant is change".
jason schreierinto the trash it goes.
Would never pay to read anything from that dude.